Could Donald Trump face any criminal charges for alleged incitement of the Capitol insurrection?
@JoyceWhiteVance believes "No one is above the law. Donald Trump is no longer above the law, and it's time for prosecutors to give his conduct a hard look."
Over the weekend, Russian officials arrested more than 3,000 people calling for the release of opposition leader Alexei Navalny. @Billbrowder joins @mehdirhasan to discuss the latest crackdowns. Tune in at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and live: youtube.com/0Mvyrd5JEzA
“Yes, Joe Biden doesn't lie like Trump - who does? - but he's not always honest, either.” @mehdirhasan lays out why the media shouldn’t get complacent… but is probably easily seduced by a “normal” administration:
Forgive and forget Trumpism? Nah, @michelleinbklyn tells @mehdirhasan: “There is a place for healing, but the place for healing comes after accountability, after atonement... to at least air everything that they’ve done. Unity can’t just be a synonym for impunity.”
“Former officials are subject to impeachment and trial,” @RepCicilline tells @mehdirhasan; that’s not unusual. But *this* one’s different, not just because it’s a former president, but because many Senate jurors were “both witnesses [to] and victims” of Trump’s high crime.
GOP voters have “been fed a steady diet of lies starting with president and his enablers including Marco Rubio, Ted Cruz, and others, the whole infrastructure of right-wing media,” @johnpodesta tells @mehdirhasan, but Biden’s best counter is “leveling with the American people.”
Senate Majority Leader Schumer announced today that Donald Trump’s impeachment will begin the week of February 8th. @mehdirhasan will ask @RepCicilline what we can expect tonight at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and live: youtube.com/doSbrO5gY00
President Biden was dealt one of the worst hands in history. Can he turn the country around in his first 100 days? @johnpodesta will join @mehdirhasan to explain what he thinks. Catch the interview at 7 p.m. ET on @peacockTV and live: youtube.com/doSbrO5gY00
The Senate filibuster came *after* the American framers... who saw a guy like Mitch McConnell coming, says @AJentleson, and feared a minority party tossing "a monkey wrench into the system for political gain" to "block the majority from doing anything and make them look bad."
"It is in our best interest, especially in a time of crisis, for the president of the United States to succeed, regardless of party." So why are all these Republicans openly wishing for Biden to fail?
Husband and wife @RamezALG and @AsmaAlghazzouli were separated by Trump's Muslim ban. "Perception matters," Ramez says, and Biden's order to end the ban "shows that it's not okay to target Muslims anymore...Americans are Americans."
If @russfeingold were still in the Senate, would he vote to expel Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz for their parts in inciting the Capitol insurrection? “I'm guessing based on what I've heard that I would seriously consider it, but I'd want to see the evidence, I'd want to be fair.”
“Yesterday Joe Biden became the first president to ever condemn white supremacy by name in an inaugural address. You'd think that's something we could all agree on, right? Wrong.” @mehdirhasan surveys the Republicans who got mad about that and asks: hmm...why?